EF Mass for Year of St Paul
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There will be a Solemn High Mass at Longbenton on Monday, see Forest Murmurs.
It also gets a mention on the cathedral website:
The Year of St Paul
A Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite will take place to mark the closing of the Year of St Paul, on Monday 29th June at 7.30pm in Ss Peter and Paul Church, Benton Lane, Longbenton. Music will include Byrd’s Mass in four parts and music sung by The Schola and The Cappella Novocastriensis.
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This is a good thing.
It does always make me marvel, though, when I see an EF Mass advertised. It nearly always reads like a play bill, featuring composers and performers as if it’s a concert.
It’s a rare thing, indeed, to see the music at an OF Mass billed like entertainment.
Comment by Thom June 26, 2009 @ 7:43 amI expect that’s because usually there isn’t anything to advertise musicwise at the OF. Those at which there is, are usually “regular” Masses, and so don’t have individual advertising – such as at Westminster Cathedral, for example. There’s less stuff written for the OF as well, of the sort of music one goes to listen to (exceptions? Messiaen’s organ thingy), and if you have the choral settings written for the EF, the OF can grind to a halt in a way the EF doesn’t. So even if you have a splendiferously gorgeous solemn Mass in the OF, you might well have Gregorian Ordinary and some propers, which leaves you with not much to advertise music-wise
Comment by berenike June 26, 2009 @ 11:43 amFolks, I have a last unexpected crisis to overcome, tomorrow around 1 o’clock, to pass this year! Please (srsly) petition St Joseph Cupertino and the guardian angel of the professor of the history of ancient and medieval philosophy!
Comment by berenike June 26, 2009 @ 11:45 amHi Thom, the concert thing is interesting, because what struck me was the opposite, that usually you would hear such music in an abstract setting such as a concert or on a disc or whatever, whereas this is an opportunity to hear it in its real home.
It’s so rare to see an EF Mass ‘advertised’, in this diocese anyway. This is a special occasion. There are a couple of regular Sunday EF Masses around the city area, but they’re advertised in the sense that in brackets it’ll say ‘Latin’ or ‘Traditional’ after the time, lol.
Berenike, St Joseph of Cupertino is another of my favourite saints (he was self-elected patron of my previous blog)! I am sure you’ll pass without his intercession, but yes I have prayed for you
good luck xx
Comment by madame evangelista June 27, 2009 @ 8:16 amHahahar! Ideal situation – two professors wanting to use the same room, crowd of anxious undergrads waiting outside, I am invited in “It was you wanted the signature, wasn’t it? – anything else?” “er, a mark would be nice too” – that was it! Hurrah!
Thank you folks!
Comment by berenike June 27, 2009 @ 1:29 pmCongratulations
Comment by madame evangelista June 27, 2009 @ 3:44 pm